One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

- Henry De Montherlant

The United States is evil.

- Henry De Montherlant

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

- Henry De Montherlant

A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenome…

- Henry De Montherlant

We like someone because. We love someone although.

- Henry De Montherlant

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

- Henry De Montherlant

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

- Henry De Montherlant

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

- Henry De Montherlant

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

- Henry De Montherlant